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I just found Xlye Scope from CulturedCode. Xyle Scope is to web page, layout and CSS what Instruments is to XCode. Wow.

I’ve been using CSSEdit for a long time and its been really useful. It lets you look at a web page, and turn on an “X-Ray” mode which lets you see what CSS elements are formatting an element which has helped me grind through a lot of CSS issues. The one thing that CSSEdit lacks is the ability to get a live view into the web page you’re working on as it appears as a DOM tree with its actual content embedded into the CSS.

It must be a programmer thing (web designers I know never have this problem) but trying to nail down a CSS problem is often much, much harder than squashing a programming bug because CSS seems to arbitrary and quirky. I have spent literally days messing with CSS to try to understand why something won’t render right only to discover that it’s a nesting problem or I used “class” where I should have used “id”, etc. Xyle Scope lays bare exactly what’s going on in my page layouts. (yay!). Very nice bit of software and cheap too, only $19.95

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